Kursawka
Village
Kursavka
Курсавка
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List of large settlements in Russia |
Kursawka ( Russian Курса́вка ) is a village (selo) in the Stavropol region in Russia with 11,830 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus , in the southern part of the Stavropol mountain range , about 75 km as the crow flies southeast of the regional administrative center of Stavropol and about halfway between the cities of Nevinnomyssk and Mineralnye Vody . It is located on the upper course of the left Kuma tributary Surkul and the Kurschawka, which flows into it from the right, which only occasionally has water . The Great Stavropol Irrigation Canal runs a few kilometers to the west .
Kursavka is the administrative center Rajons Andropowski and seat of the rural community selsowet (selskoje posselenije) Kursawski, also includes almost immediately northwest subsequent village Surkul to.
history
The village goes back to the Kursawski settlement , which arose around the railway station of the same name on the Rostov-on-Don - Vladikavkas line after it opened in 1875.
In the 1920s the place developed into an important agricultural center of the area and in February 1924 it became the administrative seat of the Kursawski rajon named after im. Before the 1950s, the current place name form became relevant. During World War II , Kursawka was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from August 1942 to mid-1943 .
After a temporary dissolution from 1963 to 1970, the Rajon got its current name in 1984 after the politician Yuri Andropow , who died in the same year and who was born in Stanitsa Nagutskaya (today the village of Soluno-Dmitijewskoje ), 20 km from Kursawka .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1909 | 335 |
1939 | 3,990 |
1959 | 4,396 |
1979 | 7,724 |
1989 | 9,625 |
2002 | 10,848 |
2010 | 11,830 |
Note: from 1939 census data
traffic
The railway station of the same name is located in Kursawka at kilometer 1781 (from Moscow ) on the Rostov-on-Don - Vladikavkas / - Makhachkala - Baku railway that has been electrified on this section since 1963 . The federal highway R217 Kawkas (formerly M29) passes north of the village, which also leads along the northeastern edge of the Caucasus to the Azerbaijani border.
Web links
- Official website of the local government (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)